Kobalt

Job Title: Senior Manager, Sync Clearance Department: Synchronization Reporting To: VP Location: Los Angeles Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager of Sync Clearance to join our close-knit Synchronization team in Los Angeles. Reporting to the VP of Sync Clearance & Licensing Administration, this role requires thoughtful negotiation, rights clearance, deal execution, and project management across our world-class publishing catalog for sync licenses originating in North America. This is a business oriented position for someone who can build and maintain strong relationships, solve complex problems, and enjoys turning creative opportunities into meaningful revenue for writers and artists. You’ll work closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure Kobalt’s catalog is successfully licensed and payments are received in a timely manner. What You’ll Do Rights Clearance &...

A&R Manager Department: Creative Location: Berlin, Germany Territory: Germany, Austria & Switzerland Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role We’re looking for an experienced A&R Manager to join our Creative team in Berlin, with responsibility for identifying, signing and developing songwriters, artists and producers across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. You’ll be well connected across the music industry, with a strong understanding of the local creative landscape and a track record of identifying and developing talent. You’ll combine creative instinct with commercial judgement and data to build a strong pipeline of signing opportunities and develop trusted relationships with talent, managers, lawyers and other industry partners. Beyond signing talent, you’ll work closely with Kobalt’s existing roster to understand their creative ambitions, identify opportunities and connect them with the right collaborators. As part of our...

Manager, A&R Department: Creative (A&R) Reporting To: Claes Uggla Location: Stockholm, Sweden Hybrid Working: Minimum of 4 days in the office Full-time | Permanent The Role We’re looking for a passionate and culturally plugged-in A&R Manager to join our team and help shape the future of songwriting across the Nordics and Europe. This role sits at the heart of the creative community — discovering exceptional talent, building meaningful relationships with writers and producers, and helping drive opportunities for our roster across the global music ecosystem. Beyond signing talent, you’ll work closely with Kobalt’s existing roster to understand their creative ambitions, identify opportunities and connect them with the right collaborators. As part of our global A&R team, you’ll also work with colleagues across Europe, the US and APAC to create opportunities for our writers and artists internationally. If you have a sharp musical instinct, strong industry...

Job Title: Manager, Corporate Finance Department: Corporate Finance (FP&A) Reporting To Sarah Weigand Location: London Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role Joining a global Corporate Finance team, the FP&A Manager will be based in our London office and support all of Kobalt’s business units in planning and budgeting. This position will report to the Senior Manager, Corporate Finance based in New York, with oversight from the VP and EVP of finance based in London. You will help drive the business through regular forecasting and analysis with a focus on revenue and margin – creating a developing financing models, providing insight into revenue performance, and carrying out ad-hoc analysis for senior management.  What You’ll Do You support delivery of regular weekly/monthly/quarterly internal management reporting and external investor deliverables You maintain revenue and margin models with a focus on Kobalt artist deals...

Job Title: Analyst, Corporate Finance Department: Corporate Finance Reporting To: Emma Villaruel Location: Los Angeles Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role Joining our global Corporate Finance team, the Analyst will be based in our Los Angeles office and play an active role in Kobalt’s deal processes. Working closely with A&R, senior management and Legal, the team provides financial analysis to support the signing of artists and songwriters, catalogue acquisitions and broader financial and strategic analysis. You’ll be responsible for analysing potential investments, building and managing financial models, evaluating streaming and royalty data, and developing recommendations to support deal decisions. This role requires strong financial and analytical judgement, attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple live deals and priorities in a fast-moving environment. What You’ll Do Partner with the A&R team to analyse new...

Job Title: Junior Analyst, Corporate Finance Department: Corporate Finance (FP&A) Reporting To: Sarah Weigand Location: NYC Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role Joining a global Corporate Finance team, the FP&A Junior Analyst will be based in our New York office and support all of Kobalt’s business units in planning and budgeting. This position will report to the Senior Manager, Corporate Finance with oversight from the VP and EVP of finance based in London. You will help drive the business through regular forecasting and analysis with a focus on revenue and margin – creating a developing financing models, providing insight into revenue performance, and carrying out ad-hoc analysis for senior management.  What You’ll Do You support delivery of regular weekly/monthly/quarterly management reporting deliverables You capture detailed notes during weekly and monthly business calls and summarize your takeaways with the team You...

Manager, People Team Job Title: Manager, People Team (HRBP) Department: People Team Reporting To: Senior Director, People (UK/RoW) Location: London, United Kingdom Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role We are looking for an experienced and adaptable People Partner to own the People partnership for designated business functions while playing a key role across UK/RoW and global People priorities. Working closely with senior leaders, you’ll translate business priorities into practical solutions across workforce planning, organisational change, talent, performance, employee relations and organisational effectiveness. You’ll operate with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, using commercial judgement, data and insight to influence decisions and proactively identify challenges. You’ll also work closely with the Senior Director, People as a key partner across the UK/RoW agenda, taking ownership of strategic, cross-functional and global People...

The Role We are looking for a Manager to join Kobalt’s Contract Administration team in Nashville. The team plays a critical role in interpreting, onboarding, and administering client agreements, ensuring contractual terms are accurately reflected across Kobalt’s systems and downstream operations. This is a critical leadership position focused on the strategic oversight, accuracy, and scalability of our contract administration and onboarding operations. You will be responsible for ensuring that our client agreements are translated into Kobalt’s systems with precision and operational efficiency. This role is suited to a leader who combines technical expertise in music publishing with a passion for departmental governance, process optimization, and team development. You will set the standard for how we ingest and interpret complex agreements, acting as the primary business partner to our stakeholders in Business Affairs. Your mandate is to elevate the team’s performance, drive...

Manager, Royalties Department: Royalties & Incoming Tracking & Business Intelligence Reporting To: Senior Manager, Royalties Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role Joining our Royalties team in Nashville, the Royalties Manager will oversee a team of three direct reports responsible for retrieving, ingesting, and reconciling royalty data with payments from our income sources. You will play a crucial role in ensuring publishing royalty revenue is processed accurately and delivered to our clients efficiently. This role requires a detail-oriented, highly analytical leader who can confidently navigate new process requests, iterate on existing workflows, and run point on processing our Global Digital Business deals with partners and DSPs. Working closely with the Senior Manager of Royalties, you will ensure our bespoke rights management platform remains up to date with changing industry...

Associate Director, Digital Operations Location: London, United Kingdom Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role Reporting directly to the SVP of Digital Operations & Royalties, the Associate Director, Digital Operations will be responsible for the day-to-day running of AMRA's Digital Operations function. Working alongside the Usage Processing, Finance Operations, and BI & Automation teams, you'll help ensure the successful delivery of our global digital administration services while driving operational excellence across the function. This is a hands-on operational leadership role. You'll take ownership of cross-functional workflows, support teams in resolving complex operational issues, lead projects to improve processes and service delivery, and help shape the future direction of the Digital Operations function. You'll work closely with internal stakeholders across Operations, Finance, and Technology to ensure our services...